TY  - BOOK
AU  - Greene, Virginie
TI  - Logical fictions in medieval literature and philosophy
SN  - 9781107660175
U1  - 840.9001 GRE-V 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - United Kingdom
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Logic in literature
KW  - Philosophy, Medieval
KW  - Literature--Philosophy
KW  - Dialectic in literature
KW  - Latin literature
KW  - French literature
N1  - In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, new ways of storytelling and inventing fictions appeared in the French-speaking areas of Europe. This new art still influences our global culture of fiction. Virginie Greene explores the relationship between fiction and the development of neo-Aristotelian logic during this period through a close examination of seminal literary and philosophical texts by major medieval authors, such as Anselm of Canterbury, Abélard, and Chrétien de Troyes. This study of Old French logical fictions encourages a broader theoretical reflection about fiction as a universal human trait and a defining element of the history of Western philosophy and literature. Additional close readings of classical Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle, and modern analytic philosophy including the work of Bertrand Russell and Rudolf Carnap, demonstrate peculiar traits of Western rationalism and expose its ambivalent relationship to fiction
ER  -